It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset. Frederick Lenz upset karma selfish Those whose primary concern is to destroy others are at the lowest level of development. Those who are only interested in their own satisfaction are farther along. Those who both do things for their own satisfaction and the satisfaction of others are even father along. Then there are saints who just constantly live for the welfare of others. Frederick Lenz karma satisfaction father Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see things that you never saw before. Frederick Lenz selfless karma mind You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into a different plateau of consciousness. Frederick Lenz karma mean moving If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you. Frederick Lenz karma tasks jobs By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives. Frederick Lenz karma buddhist yoga Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime. Frederick Lenz karma creating lifetime If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma. Frederick Lenz karma buddhism yoga My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money. Frederick Lenz karma yield thinking If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal. Frederick Lenz karma causes helping Many people excuse themselves by claiming that they don't have to do work anymore because they are beyond it. They are simply afraid of getting their hands dirty. Getting your hands dirty washes your being. Frederick Lenz karma success dirty A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind. Frederick Lenz lovely karma mind Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened. Frederick Lenz karma mind desire To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self. Frederick Lenz karma structure self You have all died many times before and none of you look the worse for it. Frederick Lenz died death looks You can't die. Bodies come and go but your spirit is eternal. You're the stuff that life is. Frederick Lenz body stuff death We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life. Frederick Lenz where-we-came remember death You don't really have a choice. You are alive and you will die. Frederick Lenz alive choices death Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through. Frederick Lenz walks doorways death At the time of death we walk through a doorway and our spirit, which is very thin, slides through into another world. Frederick Lenz doorways death world
